GENERATIONS
WHEN ASKED IF HE WAS WORRIED ABOUT HIS PLACE IN HISTORY WINSTON CHURCHILL REPLIED NO SINCE HE PROPOSED TO “WRITE IT MYSELF.” YOU MAY NOT BE INTERESTED IN HISTORY (TO PARAPHRASE TROTSKY) BUT HISTORY IS INTERESTED IN YOU. GENERATIONS ARE THE THROUGH-LINE. IT’S YOUR HISTORY. HELP WRITE IT.
THE EAGLES “WASTED TIME”
With an uncanny facility to tantalize and moralize at the same time, Frey and Henley described the insatiable appetites that drew so many of us into one kind of trouble or another. “What kind of love have you got?” they asked of a favorite character of theirs, a young woman just starting to worry about […]
THE EAGLES “LIFE IN THE FAST LANE”
With an uncanny facility to tantalize and moralize at the same time, Frey and Henley described the insatiable appetites that drew so many of us into one kind of trouble or another. “What kind of love have you got?” they asked of a favorite character of theirs, a young woman just starting to worry about […]
“A TASTE OF HONEY” RITA TUSHINGHAM 1961
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THE BYRDS “CHIMES OF FREEDOM” 1965
http://youtu.be/opqjh2jjIM0 When Dylan sang Chimes of Freedom (covered by The Byrds, my favorite) they tolled – it seemed to me – for everyone, “Tolling for the aching whose wounds cannot be nursed, for the countless confused, accused, misused strung-out ones, and worse. And for every hung up person in the whole wide universe.” (FROM AN […]
BUKKA WHITE 1969
Inside the Forum, the energy is intense. As the Stones walk in all eyes follow them. They disappear up the long concrete corridor, back to the dressing rooms. Inside it is reasonably calm. Gram Parsons and Stanley Booth are there, as is Glyn Johns. Hovering near the Stones is a black man I don’t recognize […]
THE MAMAS AND THE PAPAS “CALIFORNIA DREAMING” 1966
As we gain elevation, the fog starts to thin, the redwoods are below us, and the vegetation changes — becomes California oak, madrone, poison oak, and brown, dry grass. The jeep climbs over a ridge, out into brilliant sunshine. Below, the coastline is covered with an endless layer of fog. “Here, take this,” says my […]
MARTIN LUTHER KING ASSASINATION 1968
Back in America, 1969. When the year began, the American troop strength in Vietnam was reaching its peak: 550,000 men. Thirty thousand Americans had been killed and more than 20,000 others will be. In the previous year, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy had both been assassinated. At the Chicago Democratic National Convention had […]
“HAVE YOU NO DECENCY, SIR” – MCCARTHY HEARINGS 1954
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BOB DYLAN “TALKIN’ JOHN BIRCH BLUES” 1963
By the time I was a freshman in college the reports of the loyalty oaths, of commies under the bed, had been reduced to hyperbole, and my friends and I dismissed it all with a sense of moral superiority. We made fun of it with Bob Dylan singing in the background: “Well, I wus lookin’ […]
HUMAN BE-IN 1967
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